Well, that didn’t take long.
After winning four GRAMMYs Sunday night, including Best New Artist and Best Rap Album, Macklemore apologized to JET’s latest cover star Kendrick Lamar via text.
Macklemore, whose real name is Ben Haggerty, tweeted: ...
Posted Tuesday, January 28th 2014 at 10:59PM
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The outspoken singer India Arie, who is not afraid to speak her mind, let loose after the Grammys for 2014. Speaking along with a chorus of many other black performers who are determining that the Grammys are virtually worthless, Arie gave her hones ...
Posted Tuesday, January 28th 2014 at 4:34PM
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Pre-Islamic observation of fasting
During the Jahiliyyah (i.e. pre-Islamic period), the Quraysh tribe and the Jews used to fast on the day of Ashura. It marks two important events: the day Noah left the Ark and the day that Moses w ...
Posted Monday, January 27th 2014 at 8:58PM
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You now can home school you children here is a program that I give our money to !!
http://www.pinterest.com/richetta77/african-american-home-school-network/
The African-American home school movement is growing; however there is a lack of on-lin ...
Posted Monday, January 27th 2014 at 7:54PM
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Another potential “Stand Your Ground” shooting recently occurred in Florida. An Orlando man shot and killed a 21-year-old who was allegedly running through (or from, depending on who you ask), his yard. But the young man had not stolen anything, nor ...
Posted Sunday, January 26th 2014 at 12:49AM
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Apollo Nida has found himself back in trouble with the law.
According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the husband of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Phaedra Parks was arrested charged with bank fraud and identity theft on Thursday.
Nida ...
Posted Saturday, January 25th 2014 at 1:03PM
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You must learn the GOD of black people who looks like us black like you and me !
Ptah was the chief god of the ancient city of Memphis. He was a creator god who brought all things to being by thinking of them with his mind and saying their names wi ...
Posted Thursday, January 23rd 2014 at 6:45PM
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That BLACKNESS ... in Nina's own words.
In delivering Nina Simone's story, we should NOT whitewash away that which compelled her.
Dr. Nina Simone, our High Priestess, deserves the integrity of TRUTH, not the disgrace of Hollywood fictionaliza ...
Posted Thursday, January 23rd 2014 at 12:38PM
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Woman
What the night is to the day, is woman to man. The period of change that brings us light out of
darkness, darkness out of light, and semi-light out of darkness are like the changes we find in
woman day by day. She makes one happy, then miser ...
Posted Tuesday, January 21st 2014 at 11:43PM
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"The truth is that the term ‘Caucasian’ has little or no meaning as it is now used.
The word itself is a conventional term given at the first by Blumenbach to designate
what he considered the highest type of the human family, shown by a skull fro ...
Posted Tuesday, January 21st 2014 at 10:59PM
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EGYPT has been called the "Father of History and the Mother of Civilization" and well may she be called both for her influence upon the ancient world must have been great.
Thales, the founder of Greek philosophy, was a student of Egyptian thought ...
Posted Tuesday, January 21st 2014 at 10:13PM
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If you’re one of those folks who thinks President Obama is a “disappointment,” you haven’t been paying attention the last few years. And those of you who try to draw comparisons with the Bush Administration should put away the hallucinogens and have ...
Posted Monday, January 20th 2014 at 8:22PM
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President Obama believes that his race is a contributing factor to his low approval ratings in recent days, according to a new interview he gave to the New Yorker.
“There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they ...
Posted Monday, January 20th 2014 at 8:19PM
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It's become a TV ritual: Every year in mid-January, around the time of Martin Luther King's birthday, we get perfunctory network news reports about "the slain civil rights leader."
The remarkable thing about this annual review of King's life is that ...
Posted Monday, January 20th 2014 at 8:10PM
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This will be a very short diary. It will not contain any links or any scholarly references. It is about a very narrow topic, from a very personal, subjective perspective.
The topic at hand is what Martin Luther King actually did, what it was that he ...
Posted Monday, January 20th 2014 at 8:06PM
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Interesting 'characterization' of white privilege in America. After nearly 70 years in America it is not white privilege that concerns but 'black oppression'. In other words why do drug laws more severely punish blacks and let whites go free? And why ...
Posted Monday, January 20th 2014 at 7:54PM
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Amenhotep IV , better known as "Akhenaton" is in some respects, the most remarkable of the Pharaohs. He is considered the the founder of the first monotheistic religion. The account of Akhenaton is not complete without the story of his beautiful wife ...
Posted Sunday, January 19th 2014 at 3:27PM
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African history is the oldest human history in the World. From Ancient Egypt to the present great leaders (alive as well as those in transition) have shaped Africa and world history. This page is dedicated to studying their noble deeds, learning fr ...
Posted Sunday, January 19th 2014 at 3:16PM
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